LeCharles Bentley Sues Cleveland Browns

Tony Grossi of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer is reporting that former Cleveland Browns center LeCharles Bentley is suing the Browns. Bentley, like former Browns wide receiver Joe Jurevicius, is suing the team for fraud and negligent misrepresentation.

Bentley's attorney, Shannon Polk, stated: "The Browns convinced LeCharles to rehab at their facility. Nothing required him to do it. That wasn't part of his job.

"They told him their facility was the best and that they had successfully helped others. But they never told him about a host of unsanitary conditions there, and they never told him about the list of others who contracted staph before he chose to rehab there.

"Had the Browns disclosed that stuff to him, had they been straight with him, he would have never agreed to rehab at their training facility. The man nearly died from the staph infection he got there."

NFL and law guru Mike Florio has some concerns for the case.

"Bentley's case arguably is weaker than the claim filed by Jurevicius, given that Jurevicius was the last in a line of players to contract a staph infection while playing for the Browns."